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Suncor-Petro Merger Signal of Canada’s Expanding Global Role And Plans For...

Canada is starting to flex its muscle as a major player in the world of energy around non-conventional hydrocarbon resources.This week, Suncor, the number two producer of tar sands, will merge with...

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A brain implant for artificial motivation

I recently blogged and vlogged about Medtronic starting a clinical trial where deep brain stimulation (DBS) would be applied to the ventral striatum (part of the human reward circuit) to treat...

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'Self-Cleaning' Surface Coating Improves Solar Cell Performance

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a unique super-'hydrophobic' (water repelling) surface coating that 'boosts the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells both by...

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[Video] GM Segway PUMA Cruising Through Brooklyn & New York City

GM & Segway are hoping to commercialize a new category of smart micro-vehicles for urban environments by 2012 (See previous post).  I love the application of Segway software, but am skeptical of a...

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GM & Segway Unveil Personal Urban Mobility Vehicle, Demonstrate Disruptive...

General Motors and Segway unveiled a new type of small electric motor vehicle with advanced software that could shift how we look at mobility as a service.In an effort to appeal to digitally connected...

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Virus Built Batteries? MIT Advances Bio-Industrial Manufacturing Technique to...

MIT's Biomolecular Materials Group has advanced a technique of using 'genetically engineered viruses that first coat themselves with iron phosphate, then grab hold of carbon nanotubes to create a...

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Oregon Researchers Use Nano-shells of Algae to Trap Photons and Improve Solar...

The Future of Energy will be based on our ability to elegantly control the interactions of light, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and metals.  And for all our engineering prowress of extracting and blowing up...

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Asimo Controlled By Human Thought (Video)

We've already seen thought-controlled avatars, so it comes as no surprise that robotics represents a new frontier for brain computer interfaces (BCIs).  Still, the following video of a human...

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IBM Set to Tackle Jeopardy, Pushing Into Qualitative Search?

Is IBM gearing up to compete with Wolfram Alpha in the computational search game?  Maybe.  Is IBM gearing to take on the top minds on popular TV game show Jeopardy?  Definitely. Check out this video...

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[Video] 60 Minutes Clean Coal Program Misses Chance to Introduce Bio-based...

60 Minutes recently aired a program on the future of coal power featuring Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers (an advocate of longer term 'Cathedral Thinking' carbon reduction) and leading climate scientist...

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Wolfram Demos Alpha (VIDEO)

Wondering what all of the Alpha hype is about?  Here's a dense 10-minute video snippet of the official Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge engine" unveiling, presented by the mathematician himself,...

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Researchers Create Model for Synthetic Hydrogen Catalyst Using Low Cost...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have created a synthetic catalyst model of the active hydrogen producing site of a naturally occuring enzyme based on 'cheap and plentiful building blocks –...

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The Singularity Backlash

With a pair of feature films due for release in 2009, Ray Kurzweil is poised to shotgun the Singularity mega-meme to the mainstrean.But how will the message and messenger be received? And what effect...

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Are We Destined to Merge With Our Avatars?

Futurist Thomas Frey of the DaVinci Institute has posted a thought-provoking avatar roadmap detailing an increasingly critical and symbiotic relationship between man and this progeny of ours.  Frey...

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10 Questions with SIAI President Michael Vassar

Recently appointed Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) President Michael Vassar, a hardcore proponent of science and reason, emphasizes the importance of "human rationality" when...

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Web-Mediated Learning Found More Effective Than the Traditional Classroom

A comprehensive report asserts that web-mediated learning has been found to be more effective than face-to-face learning.New York Times: Over the 12-year span, the report found 99 studies in which...

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Your Time and Mine

 By Jason M. VaughnCitizens of the late-2009 Earth  Pardon my husky voice.  It’s dusty here, or I’ve got a Supercold and the future’s all out of throat lozenges; take your pick.   I realize that many...

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Incredible Data Visualization of the Allosphere

Check out this stunning video of inventor JoAnn Kuchera-Morinis demonstrating the Allosphere at the last TED conference.   The Allosphere is a 3 story high chamber that allows researchers to stand in...

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The Future of Collaboration Begins with Visualizing Human Capital

How can the power and scope of social networks, combined with human capital metrics, be used to facilitate shared creation and innovation?Category: Business & WorkYear: GeneralTags: social, media,...

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Is Twitter a Complex Adaptive System?

cross-posted from www.emergentbydesign.comI've seen a bunch of posts bubble up over the past few days that are really sparking my curiousity about what is really going on with Twitter, so I need to do...

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